[Area] 109,884 square kilometers.

[Population] 11.083 million (2023). The urban population is 77%, and the rural population is 23%. Of the country's population, 15.73% are aged 0-14, 61.97% are aged 15-59, and 22.3% are aged 60 and over. Life expectancy is 77 years.

[Capital] city of Havana (La Habana), population 2.149 million (2023).

[Brief description] Located at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico in the northwestern Caribbean. It has more than 1,600 islands, including Cuba Island and Youth Island, and is the largest island country in the West Indies. Most of the territory belongs to the tropical rainforest climate, only the southwestern coastal leeward slopes for the savanna climate, with an average annual temperature of 25 ℃. The annual precipitation is more than 1000 millimeters, except for a few areas.

The island of Cuba was discovered by Columbus in 1492, conquered and colonized by the Spanish expeditionary force in 1510, subjected to two wars of independence in 1868 and 1895, and occupied by the U.S. after its victory in the war against Spain in 1898, and was established as the "Republic of Cuba" by the U.S. in 1902, and leased two naval bases to the Cuban government in 1903. In 1903, the U.S. leased two naval bases in Cuba, and the U.S. still occupies the Guantanamo Naval Base. On January 1, 1959, Castro led the insurrectionary army to overthrow Batista's rule and set up a revolutionary government. 1961, Castro declared that he was starting a socialist revolution. 1962, the U.S. declared that it was imposing an economic, trade, and financial embargo on Cuba. 

(Source: Official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China:https://www.mfa.gov.cn/web/gjhdq_676201/gj_676203/bmz_679954/)